Word: jerichos
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Scream after scream issued from a kitchen near Jericho, L. I. The door opened, a man entered, alarm written large upon his ordinarily phlegmatic countenance. The screams continued. He crossed the room quickly to the side of a robust woman who sat bowed over an oilcloth-covered table, screaming. He removed from her clutch a newspaper which seemed to be the cause of her extraordinary perturbation, spread it out so that the light of the kerosene lamp fell upon its crumpled front page. The woman fell silent to watch his face which, as he read, sharpened, paled with incredulous horror...
...futile, the two perceived, to telephone for information. To attempt to reach a demolished metropolis by wire was a fantastic notion; and that anyone in Jericho could tell them more than the News announced was unlikely. They resigned themselves, waited. Next afternoon, earlier than usual, the man walked along the wagon-road to the village, bought his customary copy of the News, and, in addition, a copy of a rival gum-chewers' sheetlet known to the scornful as the Evening Pornographic, but to its readers simply as the Graphic. With trembling fingers, he scuffled the pages of these publications...
...tried for a long while to eat her cake and have it too. Wilfrid would deliver ultimata-demanding that she yield "now or never." Somehow, it never seemed to be either. He told Michael all about it. Relationships grew increasingly strained, until finally something snapped and Wilfrid left for Jericho. The older generation is chiefly represented by Michael's father, Sir Lawrence Mont, ninth baronet, and old Soames Forsyte, collector of pictures. Catastrophe overtook these gentlemen through the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, known to its intimates as the P. P. R. S. Manager Elderson of the Society brought ruin...
...four verses, the best is "Jericho at Sunrise" by A. D. Ficke '04. The imagery of "Fair Harvard," a short poem by C. P. Kendall '02, is marred by the unfortunate fact, which the author overlooks, that grapes do not grow on trees. "Armor," by W. Bynner '02, is a pretty little meditation about love containing nothing original or new. A sonnet by H. M. Ayres '02 aims high and nearly reaches the mark...
...photographs, nearly 1,000 in number, give an excellent view of Semitic scenes; the mountains, lakes and rivers of Palestine and North Syria, the cities of Jerusalem, Jericho, Samaria and Tyre, the ruins of Petra...